[csw-maintainers] pkgutil version updates on the mirror roots? Make pkgutil package ARCH=all?

[Sebastian Kayser]

Sebastian Kayser wrote on 28.09.2009 21:12:
> pkgutil was placed straight at the mirror root a while ago to facilitate
> downloading, but it doesn't seem to get updates. The version floating
> around [1,2] is 1.5, most recent pkgutil is 1.7. Could this please be
> fixed (and be kept in sync in the future pleeeaase :).

Independent of the ongoing discussion: the version on the mirror roots
is still outdated. Would some be so kind to put pkgutil 1.7 there?

The pkg-get version is also downrev btw. (4.1.3 vs. 4.2.1).

> Furthermore, could pkgutil be made an ARCH=all package, so that there is
> just _one_ direct link that one can point new users to and not a
> platform specific one (i know about uname -p, still it just makes things
> more straightforward)?
> 
> I see, the package contains a wget which is platform specific. Couldn't
> we just include two wgets (wget.i386, wget.sparc)? From what i remember,
> that is the same approach Sun uses for its explorer package.

To add some facts:

# find /opt/SUNWexplo/ -name "*curl*"
/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/curl.i386
/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/curl.sparc

# pkgparam SUNWexplo ARCH VENDOR
all
Sun Microsystems Inc.

So it is not something unthinkable that we are talking about here, but
something that Sun does too.

Sebastian

[1]http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/opencsw/pkgutil-i386.pkg
[2]http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/opencsw/pkgutil-sparc.pkg